Originally Posted by
jayteeto
The armchair investigators have started after a few posts. Moderators, do we really have to do this over and over again? It’s only a matter of time before we get onto secret homing beacons.
YOU may think it was CFIT/FADEC/SECRET HOMERS or even ALIENS. But you don’t know because you weren’t there, you have no proof and you’re dragging the reputation of the crew back into the public forum.
Jayteeto, you are conflating rigorous investigations that uncovered irrefutable facts accepted by Lord Philip; with pet theories which have never been proven. Unfortunately, the BBC's main article this week takes you directly to a website pushing the latter. They continue to pander to the guilty. Their go-to retired senior officer is the one who said the pilots were 'miles off course'. Not a single person in MoD demurred, presumably because of his rank. That's why independent investigators are needed, and if they choose an armchair over a swivel seat when sifting the evidence, then so be it. (A rocking chair works).
The question needs to be - why did MoD's investigators not uncover the facts? That retirees got there, rather quickly and with ease, seems to have upset many. So much so, MoD now withholds SI reports until after the Inquests, to prevent proper investigation. One needs to appreciate that the evidence that persuaded Lord Philip was precisely the same as that to the Nimrod and XV179 coroners, and Haddon-Cave. Investigation, singular.
There are 29 families, not just two, and they are now in the situation where the RAF's findings have been set aside, but not replaced with anything. If they ask MoD for the official report, it still says the same. They have the oblique legalese of Lord Philip's report, which a 5 year old can drive a bus through. They have Hansard, where MPs and Lords use parliamentary privilege to repeat the lies of the Air Staff. Only the Fatal Accident Inquiry comforts them.